Ryder Hesjedal of Garmin-Transitions added a stage win on the final day of the Amgen Tour of California. Hesjedal claimed that this victory was the nicest for him since it cemented that he was on the right track when it comes to his cycling career. “Since I started with this team at the beginning of 2008, I have gotten to a lot of places I wanted to be in my cycling career. To keep that going, I think I’m doing that well. Today is just a nice confirmation of that.”

Hesjedal had been slowly building up to his momentuous win in California. In 2008, he won the 2009 Vuelta a España. He placed sixth overall in the Volta a Catalunya and won the second place at the Amstel Gold Race.

At the beginning of the Tour, Hesjedal was interview as how he thought he would fare in the race. “It’s not so…